Henry B. Eyring Quotes

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

He who has insulted a prophet cannot be excused on account of ignorance, because unbelief is not excusable, just as something forbidden, owing to drunkenness, rage or grudges, is not excusable.

Nor were the laity only guilty of these things, but even our Lord’s own flock, with its shepherds, casting off the easy yoke of Christ, gave themselves up to drunkenness, enmity, quarrels, strife, envy, and other such sins

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.